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NYC Indie Film Festival Winner

Room 28 is proud to have been nominated for a NYC Indie Film Festival award for their collaborative sketch with Broadway Video’s, Más Mejor, “Latino Vortex”. Directed by SNL’s Oz Rodriguez, the short sketch has already won in the categories of Best Ensemble Cast, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design.

AFRO PUNK

A new parody produced by Pero Likereimagines Game of Thrones as a racial allegory, where House DR (Dominicans) and House PR (Puerto Ricans) must put their longstanding differences aside in order to defeat the common enemy, gentrifying hipsters.

There would be a very different war in Westeros if Latinos were playing the “Game of Thrones.”

Comedy troupe Room 28 gave fans a hilarious look into what kind of obstacles Latinos in the HBO series would face with their new parody, “Gente of Thrones,” published Wednesday on Buzzfeed’s Pero Like. In this version, Juan Snow must unite the different houses of Westerños to fight the White Walkers north of the Uptown Wall.

The characters in the parody will be instantly recognizable to any “GoT” fan but the comedians took some creative liberties as well. “Gente of Thrones,” for example, has chupacabras not dragons.

In the end, every house comes together to face a common enemy: the white walkers. But in the Latino parody, white walkers are hipsters trying to gentrify Westerños instead of blue-eyed monsters.

Watch the full parody above.

ADWEEK

The Hispanic population is the fastest-growing segment in the United States, accounting for 17 percent of the U.S. population, according to 2014 census estimates. Despite the fact that there are 55 million Latinos, however, the amount of original content targeting the demographic is lagging. And comedy is one of the largest gaps, especially within the digital space.

"There is no real hub for high-quality Latino comedy," noted Saturday Night Live alumnus Horatio Sanz. Along with former castmate and Portlandia star Fred Armisen, Sanz has signed on to groom emerging Latino comics for a new venture from Broadway Video, SNL creator Lorne Michaels' production outfit.

The rollout of Más Mejor (More Better), a digital content studio focused on Latino comedy, will be announced on Tuesday during Advertising Week. Broadway Video plans to launch the studio on Jan. 11, with talent that so far includes sketch comedy troupe Room 28 and stand-up comic Gina Brillon, who in June performed on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers.

TIMEOUT New York

Latino sketch comedy group Room 28 hits the Bronx with some of its greatest hits. Prepare to laugh hysterically at sketches that parody Donald Trump and The Bachelor.

DAILY NEWS

Comedy troupe Room 28 yuks it up at Museo del Barrio

After selling out spaces that hold up to 200 people, the up-and-coming troupe has a show scheduled at its largest venue yet, El Museo del Barrio, on Sept. 21.

"We feel like we're graduating," says Room 28 member Rachel Strauss-Muñiz. "We're at the level where we've created a demand for our show, and now we're going to be performing (at a venue) that holds 564 seats."

The show, which features Room 28's ten best sketches, will also have a political subtext — offstage. The troupe partnered with the Voto Latino organization to register audience members to vote.

"We're bringing in an element of the importance of the Latino vote," says Strauss-Muñiz.

WPIX 11

Hispanic Heritage Month is a time to celebrate the history and culture of the 55 million Latinos living in America. Held every year from September 15 through October 15, it's also a period to recognize those who are making a name for themselves in their communities.

Room 28 is doing just that through laughter. The comedy troupe is bringing the laughs with their live performances and online sketches. They will be performing "A Night at El Museo: A Collection of Fan Favorites" Wednesday, Sept. 21 at El Museo Del Barrio.

NBC VISIONES

Lynda Baquero sits down with Rachel Strauss-Muniz, Jerry Diaz, and Michael Diaz of Room 28 to discuss their approach to sketch comedy.

BILLBOARD

While many artists and organizations are responding to Donald Trump’s anti-Latino rhetoric with outrage, one group of socially conscious Latinos are using a weapon that should never be underestimated: comedy.

NPR- Latino usa

This week we take a look at comedy – who tells the jokes, how to use comedy to fix problems like the pothole on your street, and activists trying to take racial caricatures out of comedy.

HELLO GIGGLES

The Washington Heights sketch comedy collective is one of the major talents of Más Mejor, the Latinx-focused digital studio by Saturday Night Live alums Horatio Sanz and Fred Armisen. (SNL’s newest addition, Melissa Villaseñor, is also from Más Mejor.) The hilarious sketch team consists of five core players: Jaime Fernandez, Jerry “Elmo DiFoca” Diaz, Michael “Juan Bago” Diaz, Anthony Palmini and Rachel “La Loca” Strauss-Muniz. You can catch them allllll over the internet or in person for those lucky enough to live in NYC.